Insurance companies had to spend a lot of money adapting to ObamaCare’s botched rollout. And unless the White House intervenes, the law could penalize them for doing it. Problems with HealthCare.gov — and the administration’s work-arounds — saddled insurance companies with unexpected logistical costs. Yet the Affordable Care Act also caps insurers’ administrative spending, forcing them to pay rebates if their overhead is too high. Insurers will ask the White House for some relief from those rules, an industry source said, in light of the unexpected costs they had to shoulder because of HealthCare.gov. The request is still preliminary. Insurers haven’t yet tried to estimate how much the website’s problems cost them, mostly because they’re still focused on trying to get people in the door and to work through the remaining kinks in the system. But the core argument is already there: Insurers don’t think it’s fair to penalize them for expenses they incurred solely because of the government’s broken website or the administration’s last-minute policy changes. (Sam Baker in the Nation Journal)

I don’t think they would get one either. Though sanctions are going to be implemented and Obama will be on national TV stating that the sanctions are being imposed because the insurance companies are not allowing Obamacare to work.

Obamacare was a rushed measure. Obama popularity dwindled; he and his party needed something to show that they were accomplishing something. For that reason ACA was implemented missing key points and healthcare.gov was launched even though experts knew it wouldn’t work. Those who have to carry the burden are going to be insurance companies. Their request is fair, they deserve this relief. But they won’t get it.